The City Race Edwin Landseer Interior view of sorting office

Interior view of sorting office in the General Post Office

John Rich moved his playhouse at Lincoln's Inn Fields to Covent Garden

View of Covent Garden market showing traders and customers

Full length portrait

A yokel with a dog on the right watches the scene with bemusement

The City Race Edwin Landseer Interior view of sorting office'The City Race', 1771. Nash, on crutches inscribed Treasury leads a race to the Mansion House, followed by Sawbridge, Crosby (who has fallen down), Hallifax, Townsend and Bankes. In the background Wilkes, in mayoral robes, holds the cap of liberty aloft on a staff while Bull restrains the crowds, who are being harangued by Horne. It is an allusion to the mayoral election of1771.